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0 pointscurrymj8y ago0 comments

if your only goal is to get your work published in something that is technically a journal, this is very easy even if the research is very bad, and then it will likely end up on PubMed.

fundamentally, it is just a specialized search engine, which will point you to articles published elsewhere, that (unfortunately, in my opinion) happens to be hosted on the nih.gov domain.

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LinuxBender8y ago

Aggreed. In many ways they are like wikipedia [0], but they don't provide an easy way (that I can see) to challenge what an article states.

[0] - https://livertox.nih.gov/Ibuprofen.htm

And all their references; to your point, are for PubMed.

Perhaps it a call for reformation is due, or perhaps setting up wiki's and forums that give people a place to challenge and pick apart these articles.

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